Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-06

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e5s There ia rush OF blood
hele, and The doctor At the heart
|says eThtre Ii a rush of blood here
but the four doctors at his hands
and feet say, "There is d lack Of
blood At the extrcmities." Now
sapp0se the doctors at the head
and heart should insist that the
man vas troubled with too much
|blood-oyer production and bleed
him.would that cure him7 What is
needed il 10 equalize the circulation.
IL il Al insult TO God to cry out,
Over production" when people
are suffering for the very Things that
are being produced in abundance.
Last year, in this city, $5,000,OOO
went from the pockets of working
people into the saloons. Just i'm
agine what q change would lie
wrought il we could turn this five
million dollars from the saloons to
those warehouses crowded with over
production. Let all the money spent
for drink be saved for only two
weeks and be used in buying cotton
cloth and calico. and where is there
4 drunkard's wife and children who
do not need cotton cloth and calico?
Those two weeks saving would
empty every piled up warehouse in
New England, and set every idle
spindle spinning. It would not be
two days before the retail dealers
would be sending to the wholesale
dealers for more cotton and calico,
and the wholesale dealers in two
days more would be sending to the
manufacturers, and they would call
on all hands to go to work "there's
q boom in the cotton trade" Turn
the next two weeks saving on the
furniture trade, and it would start
every mandatory in the country
to work making tables and chairs
and cradles. Then let the savings
be turned to the provision stores,
and by Saturday night there would
not be left a beefsteak in The butchers
shop nor a loaf ofbread in the ba-
keries.
Remember that the blessedest way
TO step over production is to stop
over production is to stop under
consumption; the way TO give en-
~ployment to idle hands is to create
a demand for things those hands can
make.
Another question for voters is, Are
you ready to have your city govern.
ed by the politics Of dram shops? If
you license dram shops in it, you
may DO sure they will control its
politics. They do it wherever they
are. AT the risk Of repeating what
you have all read, we quote from
that wonderful article Of George
Friedrich Parsons, "The Saloon in
Politics" IN the atlantic Monthly:
1.-THE saloon is an arrangement for
the maintenance and propagation Of
the worst vice with which humanity
is afflicted; a vice which destroys
every observation-disclosures, kills shame
manhood, ambition family affection,
honor, all that makes life worth liv-
ing; q vice which fosters brutality,
self-induigence, and all the train Of
ignoble and degrading passions and
inclinations. Now, the purpose and
intent Of the saloon Icing what it is,
the developments noted are simply
what ought to have been expected
when SO large a share in the govern
ment of the county was permitted
to be seized by this sinister agency.
The American system ofgovernment
is theoretically sound. The means
OF education are accessible to all.
But when our children have PASSED
through the public schools and enter
into active life, if they wish to take
part in public affairs they must de-
scend to the saloon for instruction
in politics, and in the same institu-
ton the foreign immigrants must
graduate before they ran exercise
the right Of citizenship.
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